Sea Floor and Continental Drift

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Sea Floor and Continental Drift

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This lesson focuses on how the Earth’s crustal plates move and thus shape the arrangement of the continents and oceans. The lesson contains important vocabulary terms, and six activities covering sonar mapping, making ocean floor models, bathymetric mapping, Pangaea, and a 3-D block model of major sea floor features and components of the Earth’s crust.

Education Levels:

4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Subject:

Geography, Oceanography, Geology, Earth Science

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

PDF

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

University of California, Los Angeles

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Keywords:

Continental drift, Bathymetric mapping, Sonar, Pangaea, Continents, Plate tectonics

Mediator:

Middle school teachers, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

UCLA Marine Science Center

Is Part Of:

http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/

Language:

English

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Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science, Mathematics, Geography

Instructional Methods

Assessment Method:

Observation, Informal assessment

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

Measurement and Data

Represent and interpret data.

2. Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots.

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